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optimum/acceptable laptop config (Re:Mac OS X Java Performance)

Hi,

question is comming,

email@hidden heeft op maandag, 28 jul 2003 om 00:10 (Europe/Amsterdam) het volgende geschreven:

Message: 4
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:29:03 -0600
Subject: Mac OS X Java Performance
From: Owen Densmore <email@hidden>
To: email@hidden

This is a BIG issue. Another co-worker of mine also just found out
the same, and has junked his brand new G4 laptop.

If they are junking their G4's could you tell me where they dumped them?
I could really use one :-)

But seriously, I have a question about what is an acceptable laptop config for Java development?

My old ibook SE (the lime coloured one) needs to much done and really isn't suited for Java development. My desktop is a B&W g3/350 (used as an email server and download surf station). Both aren't really good enough to do development with, but I have no idea when it starts being good enough.
Since my budget is limited (very limited) I can't afford to go for an optimum solution, so I would like to know if you know the config of a laptop that is good enough to work on.

I work at a THE bank in the netherlands (De dutch guys will know which one I mean) as a teamleader of the Java support group (we support the development of apps on VAJ and WSAD for Websphere, including the coding, design and maintaining the inhouse framework). As a machead I prefer to use a mac for personal projects so a wintel (or linux) laptop is out (osx is better than those two in use anyway).

So what I would like to use for developing is:
-Eclipse with plugins (IBM isn't planning to port WSAD to osx)
-Ant
-jboss (anybody have Websphere running?)
-DB (postgres or mysql)

Ill work on developing Web apps, so the performance of Swing isn't the issue. Eclipse is too slow on my current systems. DVD and divx performance is nice to know, but eclipse is my most relevant benchmark.

So how much ram and how fast must the cpu be on a mac laptop to have a acceptable (meaning sub second waits when pressed a tab etc) eclipse performance?

Thanks in advance.

To come back at the topic, I don't mind if java is slower on the mac since I use it for development (I don't think it should be slow though).

gr. Bart
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